Shocked that companies and mutual funds would invest OPM (Other People's Money) in high-risk investments, the Shocked Investor was originally on a mission to find out if our money ended up in these dubious instruments. This blog now also discusses other financial topics, such as straddles, options, gold, natural gas, agri/food stocks, and the collapse of the US Dollar.

“We are going to continue to try to strengthen the recovery under way so we can dig out of this as quickly as we can,” and does this involve strengthening the very weak US dollar?

Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet said that the G-20 made “no particular conclusion”

“The remark was made that the accommodating policy vis-a- vis the U.S. might mean problems for the emerging economies, at least in terms of inflation,” “The point was made that it was much more complicated than that”

The ultra low rates in the U.S. and Japan allow investors to put their money to work in places like Brazil, causing those currencies to appreciate, and asset bubbles. "Such concerns have prompted economies from South Korea to Brazil to take steps to slow the inflow of speculative cash", says Bloomberg.

“I’m not a friend of this but I can understand” why Brazil introduced capital controls, Bruederle said.

According to the Financial Times, Brazil did not attend the meeting because it has lost confidence in the G20.

Emerging-market equity mutual funds have attracted more than U.S. $60B this year and bond funds lured $41B, both on pace for record annual inflows.